wanderingnork
this is a lae’zel blog now
Call me nork/wanderingnork. Just chilling in my corner of the internet. Significantly over 18. | AO3: bluebeholder. | Header image is my own photo. Icon by mattysummer.
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just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
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It's a sad fact that every long running universe based upon themes and tones of isolation, limiality, and cosmic horror gets worn down by overexplanation, overpopulation of the universe with entities, overuse, and eventually irony and financial exploitation. Derlething happened to Lovecraft, it happened to SCPs, it happened in record times to the backrooms.
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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.
Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.
And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.
The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.
But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.
Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.
I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.
A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).
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I was compelled by the forces of the universe to draw a sweet laughing Lae'zel I think she deserves the happiness and also hc the she snorts when she laughs
Bonus:
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HiPOD: A Diverse Layered Section of Nirgal Vallis
Based on data from the CaSSIS instrument, this target was requested in order to provide some additional color coverage and to center on a discrete reddish layer in the exposed section of this terrain. The intent is to produce a digital terrain model to get accurate thickness and orientation measurements of the layers exposed here. (Enhanced color cutout is less than 1 km across; black and white is less than 5 km.)
ID: ESP_075235_1505
date: 14 August 2022
altitude: 255 km
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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Mentor? Wise elder? No no no Felassan's a comedian
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this is advice I've given friends directly before and I've probably also posted it but I really like giving it so here it is potentially again: do not create something for an imaginary bad faith reader.
there will always be someone who finds fault in your work. there will be people who read the messages on it wrong. there will be people who will take every compelling aspect about your work off of it so they can put in their own.
you cannot make art for these people.
you will never write a story that is free from criticism. you will never draw a piece that everyone finds appealing. you will never compose a song that everyone enjoys hearing. you cannot, fundamentally, set out to create something and only think of how you can avoid someone not liking it.
because, and this is key, there will be someone who sees every angle of your story and feels its intent in their heart and gushes to their friends about it. you will draw someone's favorite art and they will make it their phone wallpaper because they want to see it every day. someone will fall in love with your song and loop it on their way to work because it gets them through the day. and THOSE are the people your work is for. THOSE are the people you have to care about, because they love what you make for what it is - because it's itself.
if you set out to create something and file off every sharp edge, prune every thorn, you will be left with something fragile and weak, and it will be fragile and weak for the sake of someone who does not exist but that you were scared of anyway.
sharing art is complex and tangled and powerful, and anything you care enough to create deserves to flourish as itself. get sillay.
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Throwing hands on sight when I find out who labeled Tara as a MONSTROSITY.
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Just a one-map fangame inspired by The Lich Queen's Beloved From Dungeons & Dragons.
It's not a faithful adaptation. I'm only working on it while I'm learning Doom mapping (I do not have plans to finish it, just making it for fun.).
About it:
"Hunted by her former allies after escaping the ascension, a Githyanki finds refuge in a fortress in Tu'narath alongside Githyanki and Githzerai traitors. With new allies they will plot the murder of the Lich Queen and the unification of the Gith People."
#HOLY FUCKING SHIT OP THIS IS AMAZING#ALL THE TINY DETAILS???#i would love to go bother zetch'r'r in his office#like you say this isn't faithful but#it feels in the spirit of that adventure#and just really lovingly crafted
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have you ever been so in love with a fictional character so fucking much you don’t know what to do, so you just spend 37 hours looking every single last detail about that character and cry.
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The most difficult part of hiding a sword, I imagine, would not be in the actual hiding, but in squashing down the phenomenal urge to tell absolutely everyone that you *HAVE* a SWORD
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